russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a matter to you clearly were a lot of military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus. german chancellor angela merkel arrives in china hoping to secure support from its pretty good partner in times of crisis on board the western policy on iran. as the international community called on israel to stop building homes on occupied land palestinians who live there are trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israeli settlers. one pm in the russian capital you're watching. russia says it will veto the latest

u.n. security council resolution on syria unless the draft is changed while moscow admits progress has been made it's yet to see a text that explicitly rules out military intervention russia is also reluctant to stop selling equipment to damascus saying that would leave syria at the mercy of unrecognized rebel forces armed with weapons smuggled from abroad out of the future as more. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons an arms for that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence anything that goes on inside syria when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because

when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there's a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya you know an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with the government opposition point just to get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we say ok great hullo contracts a longstanding relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to the opposition groups yes and they did in libya the arab and western backed regime change resolution calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not

happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the center stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still. believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for the importance of arab observers to our main working on the ground. the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies are committed to pushing president assad out of power but what if the analyst benjamin barber says forcing a regime change is a bad idea that's already plunged other arab countries into turmoil the case of

libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather. recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means. fractionalization splintering various groups up against want to try and over time the forces that are now welcome to the west and one for the displaced nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown molecules or steps to have no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be the west is hoping it will be less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of iran and less supported by us and that could be the case no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is would you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on a certainty. still have three this hour candidates versus the air critics.

of ask me the president of. don't know. why now why the careless u.s. politicians american credibility on the international stage. iran hands back to talks with the u.n. but israel and america still want more military pressure piled on the islamic state we've got the details just ahead. german chancellor angela merkel has called on china the biggest buyer of oil to use its influence to persuade iran to renounce its possible nuclear weapons ambitions merkel is on her a fifth visit to china where she's trying to change beijing stance on iran and get it to support a western resolution on syria also on the agenda seeking support for the eurozone merkel's to hold talks with chinese leaders to try to win vestment in the ailing euro professor simon shan of the chinese university of hong kong believes that china needs an ally to counter the u.s.

dominance. are there actually there are a few reasons of truth to be sure and. trusses but that's not the only reason you is cooperating with the states to sentient. it is the lives of the german chancellor that wish to show the chinese the. north makes use of this should it be to increase the oil imports from some of the us to say going to gender but then the only. germany has to convince china she should not. in a change of germans or an order china's need some. support. in china. and so command of china by the united states right now and does it really undermines the united states in a ship as. so i actually knew some of. this one of the many. that

show their wish to engage. in some. kind of a log on to our website r t dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china let's take a look at it now so far. that visit will help germany. new markets and almost a third of voters believe. it's janet helping hands here we can see you were sixteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran and north i believe of meeting with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution on syria well you know i just know what you think by logging on to our website are. now over to kate and business. gold to the highest level in eight weeks. to continue climbing why join me in twenty minutes in the business.

piece saying her relations back to gather over a split at a u.n. inspectors say they are on track to solving the deadlock over iran's nuclear program i will head back to the country later this month after wrapping up three days of what they called positive and constructive talks into iran but despite helpful feedback from the u.n. a group of american lawmakers want washington to bully iran into submission but top military official and u.s. ally israel even says all possible means should be used to disrupt tehran's nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry thinks the drums are for regime change. there's been almost a consensus not just in the united states in the intelligence community but even some degree in israel that the iranians have not made the decision to build a nuclear weapon obviously this belief that. developing expertise that can be used

in the future for such a decision if they were to make one so. if iran is sincere about its lack of interest in a nuclear weapon and if the west is willing to show some more flexibility in terms of how they're willing to negotiate on this i think there could be some resolution many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there's been a lot of propaganda in the west against iran but i do think that there is this there is an opportunity here for. for rand to make to achieve some openings but that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see a real change in government and we have more news on iran and our web site r.t. dot com how were the petrodollar who profits most from the economic sanctions on iraq and what payback is likely to follow the expert opinion first hand. also on line fighting racism with digital tools learn how an international activist group

has dealt a blow to american and british white supremacists. bombed out of these will be appetite for contemporary art grows asking auction houses announced rising profits from sales with pop rb i was looking at that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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you. could you take three months for charges three. three. three. three. three blood video for your media project a free media party dot com. the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades as a campaign for a twenty while action heats up candidates mistakes are in the limelight once again but their critics aren't laughing as maureen of ordinary ports some believe the comments made show nothing more than a neurons and disregard for world affairs. every four years america's top job is up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when they

ask me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see where russia from land here in alaska africa was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically illiterate us candidates have supplied comedians with endless material but all jokes aside some presidential hopefuls vying to lead the world's most powerful armed forces know very little about america's military interventions so you agree with president obama libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he is for reasons. you know

that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies it's also a challenge obviously not a fan with our north korean allies in the case of republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers and the comic i think that president putin represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world the overarching ignorance on international affairs has caused american political commentator bill maher to conclude i think anybody could be president in this dumb country ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're gonna be when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again and then i'm say sorry go run you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p.

is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target in let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea are going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the us is why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivocally i prohibit torture and if i were president i would be willing to use water. i think it was very effective. and the consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s.

presidential hopefuls is quite humorous but it could also be considered a national tragedy if most candidates campaigning to be leader of the so-called free world simply don't know enough about the world outside of america's borders. new york. some world news in brief for you this hour at least seventy four people have been killed and over one thousand injured in clashes between rival football fans in egypt the violence happened in the city afford state after an upset victory by the home team top club fans stormed into the field after the game and armed with sticks stones and even i forty seven people have been arrested in connection with the trouble and troops have been deployed to the city to prevent further clashes officials fear of the death toll could rise further. american the fan secretary leon panetta says the u.s. will seek to and its combat operations in afghanistan next year speaking at

a nato summit he said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training afghan forces the decade long presence of u.s. troops there has cost us around six billion dollars a year seven hundred u.s. troops and of thousands of local civilians have died since the two thousand and one invasion. pakistan's supreme court says it will charge the country's prime minister with contempt for not reopening an old corruption case against the president the trial is set to start in just over a week and could see. people jailed for six months the court has long to manatee reopening of the case against president these are diary dating back to the late one nine hundred ninety s. but the government has refused it insists the president enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office. a deep freeze and happy snow have led to over one hundred deaths across eastern europe sixty three people have died in ukraine alone

temperatures have plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius in bosnia rescue helicopter airlifted emergency food and evacuated dozens from snow blocked villages weather forecasters say the subzero temperatures are expected to last until friday . a stark message from the u.n. to israel stop building settlements on occupied palestinian territory and restart peace talks palestinians claim they are being terrorized by israeli settlers out numbered gand some are now returning tech savvy to defend themselves or has more. this footage is being filmed with nothing oh no watches camera he's the palestinian who's been pushed to the ground by israeli soldier just moments earlier his friend took his camera and started filming as the bus is so full of tourists who visit her literally i know that it was me it. was a little i was totally oh no no. no no no no no it

seems like those happen almost weekly here in the hebron hills and across the palestinian territories for years they went unrecorded until an israeli human rights organization distributed cameras to nasser and dozens of other palestinians to capture glimpses of every day reality in an occupied zone the number one reason for settler attacks against palestinians on their property is the lack of law enforcement by israeli authorities this sends a clear message to violence settlers they will act with impunity the very will not be made to pay the pay a price for their actions but more and more they are being called to book after footage like this has been made public the extremists often strike in the dead of night sitting fire to mosques and painting walls with the words placed the term as a threat to israeli security forces of the heavy price. i have to pay if they try to break down settlements and. the goal is to take control of all the land and expel palestinians the settlers let loose wild animals on the agricultural land so

they destroy the crops we've seen instances where sutlers run over palestinians with their cars and shoot at unarmed palestinians it's on the increase. guy batavia is an israeli activist who gave up his day job so he could volunteer full time to teach palestinians about the kemah project he says settlers think twice when they see a lens pointed in a direction although it didn't stop him recently from breaking his arm and beating him all over his body at a protest in support of a palestinian farmer whose land have been stolen by a settlement but we were about fifteen activists. came in about. and the settlers in the wouldn't care about the cameras that actually came in it's one of the people that they were with. on the ground there with their cameras they broke all the cameras not only did israeli police do nothing

while bones were broken and one section attempted to knife or protester but israeli activists say police beat several of them up what's more for the first time israeli woman activists say they were sick she harassed and assaulted by both male and female israeli extremists but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of nasa and others to form what's going on and hold the israeli security forces and settlers accountable that i missed when the circulus see the cameras of course they don't do what they would usually do the cameras haven't stopped or just changed the way the settlers attackers now they do it mostly when it's impossible to film their checkers from the side before they attack to see if we have cameras with us. the settlers are accused of carrying out violent attacks against random palestinian civilians damaging their property more recently however they're charged with targeting israeli soldiers and police and a face in the homes of left wing israeli activists israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to crack down on jewish extremism in the west bank but with his

government supporting settlement expansion that promise means precious little to those on the receiving end of the violence policy r.t. tel aviv. robberies happening here in our t.v. and business news is next with kate. thanks marina gold has it falls to the highest level in eight weeks stronger manufacturing countries like china and india is weakening the dollar a basting to modify alternative investments but it is now trading at over one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars an ounce as investors expect further growth on economic uncertainty and paid to hambro from one of the largest gold miners in russia believes it will reach around two thousand dollars a share there is so much debate financial uncertainty in europe there's a need to stimulate the american economy which is being done in effect by printing

money political instability in syria and iran the only way out of these issues is for money that we know the dollar euro to be devalued against real assets and people have learnt about this as a as a trick before the problem by the government so they want to protect themselves and go is indeed wealth ensure people are physically buying small boats and go as wealth insurance to stop them suffering at the hands of massive devaluation of money probably some somewhere around somewhere around two thousand average for the two thousand and twelve. debt problems in the e.u. have spurred concerns over financial stability and a number of other economies including russia's around half of the country's turnover depends on your eyes and states but the head of russia's biggest lender spare bank believes better times oh around the corner. we see that europe is already in recession and it has an impact on russia we see that we currently have

relatively low growth rates bush if european problems don't significantly worse and i would avoid saying that it would have any serious negative effects on russia we would likely have tomatoes growth which is a good sign in such a difficult time. global stock markets of how the best start to the year for almost two decades they've risen an average of five point eight percent in january by signs of accelerating growth in the u.s. and improvements in the european debt problems corporate results have also mostly been above expectations banks the miners have been the best performing sectors which shares up more than ninety percent so let's have a look at those markets now we get started with the exchange rate there has just lost its strength against the dollar meanwhile the ruble is appreciating against the dollar and is now poised for its strongest close since october the thirty first of the euro's crude oil main export blend rose for its highest price in almost

three months meanwhile the euro but names. like a own soil crude prices are performing much better than earlier in the session extending the gains made in the last hour despite the news that gasoline fell to a ten year low old though they are still trading near the lowest level in six weeks and brant crude in london was at the biggest premium to new york prices in more ways as you can see the light sweet is point three percent up other brant is haul five percent are back on to your dinner markets now let's say was a pretty flat formants where they are the greek government is still trying to come to terms with some sort of deal with their creditors meanwhile their creditors are putting pressure on the e.c.b. to join the bond swap being negotiated right now. as you can see the first c. is fun supposed to save on the does is no plane on the wing percent. on the russian

market small they got off to a good start but now it seems to me so as you can see they're raising those games e.l.t.'s has managed to stay in positive territory for the my sakes let's just interrupt. let's take a look at some individual news on the my sex fun just among the main game is a portion of the cent. is lost is the net profit reached ten and a half billion dollars p.c. baby is gaining just under seven percent and energy majors are also watched with gazprom point seven percent above all clinton's time from. believes that the general made will continue to keep the last bob still movements are likely out of the key day so late in the session. we're going to get a very important i say the most important. marker data these days this is u.s. labor market report. it's a general labor every pore it's going to come out before us market opens

expectations that american economy created hundred fifty thousand new jobs fall into a gain of joinder thousand back in december a lot of investors will be waiting for that number and we have seen on the sidelines we might see a pause in there ali if we look at the valuations they're still not very demanding and if you look at the russian market for example it is trading at less than six times earnings and just back in june a trade at about a half nine times earnings so there's been a very significant drop in the valuations in the market and in in the indexes and also in the valuations of the russian companies. the global banking sector is getting increasingly anxious about its future that's according to a new survey by consultants you see it shows concerns about new bankruptcy is banking nationalize ations having reached the highest level in thirteen years p w c

has polled by because from almost sixty countries the debt crisis in the eurozone is considered the biggest risk the survey has also shown that russian banks are less prepared to face the economic dangers than the foreign rivals i.k.o. have more markets more updates more business in fifty five minutes.

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